Just an observation.........

[MingusBASS]

I was by no means putting down guitarists. I was just commenting on the attitude by "Git Fiddlers" who seem to think that bassists are inferior.

Andrew

 

[cgworkman]

Where's that damn button?

Well, as it has been said before, bassists are failed guitarists..... ...lol

Nope. I'm thinking the other way around...

Thats funny! I guess thats why I have to turn down gigs(because of other gigs) when some of my guitarist friends(educated folk) can barely get by. I didn't start on guitar(I started on string bass when I was 10) and I don't see it as a choice for me. I'm a bassist not because of my lack of talent but because of my personality. It's who I am. I would rather support the band then be out front all the time. When it's my time to shine I'll rip it up, but thats not all I'm about. I'm about the groove and making people happy. I get paid to do something I love and live for.

I'm such a failure...

Andrew

Very nice

 

[prickly_pete]

What cracks me up are those jackass guitar players & their logic......(it has 2 less strings....it's easier) but most guitar players can't play bass.........they play guitar on the bass. They really don't know what a bass line is. IT IS A DIFFERENT INSTRUMENT. Besides guitar players are a dime a dozen. I go to 2 open jams a week...............tons of guitar players & like 3 or 4 of us bass players. Hey.....I get more gigs because bassists are in demand..........seems like everybody else want to be a guitar hero. Guitarists write all the songs? Tell that to Paul McCartney & Roger Waters.

... and Mark King, Steve Harris and Geddy Lee.

 

[TheDirtyMoocher]

maybe we should spend less time on the forums and more time playing bass...

 

[MingusBASS]

maybe we should spend less time on the forums and more time playing bass...

Why aren't you playing your bass right now?

Andrew

 

[cgworkman]

Why aren't you playing your bass right now?

Andrew

Damn.

 

[phatduckk]

right on ...

so i just got a new EBMM guitar and have been hangin in both forums now. to be honest, i think that theyre close but the bass side of the forum is the more actice side.

So i started out on bass, then got a guitar and have been flipping between the 2 for about a dozen years or so. I honestly think beeing an "ok" bassist or guitarist takes equal effort ... it gets tricky when your skills get into the "he's hella good" realm. They're different beasts and its really not fair to say which is easier. I think amazing basslines are way harder and way less obvious to write than guitar riffs are so i almost wanna say that beeing a "great" bassist is a tad harder ... but I think its a personal thing ... some people are better at this and some are better at that; some of us have more "groove" or rumble in us and some can just "hear" licks out of the blue and throw them down.

to each their own ...

So here's an almost tangent but i swear it makes sense ...

I heard about this Dennis Leary standup thing where he's holding a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
he holds up the beer and says: "I like you"
then he holds up the cigarette and says: "... but I love you"
holds up the beer again: "cuz youre nothing ..."
points at the cigarette and says "without him".
So in some off way im trying to say that we both need eachother so there's no need to even try and figure out which is better or harder and yada and yada

but f**k those drummers man. they suck! LoL

 

[barkatozz]

... and Mark King, Steve Harris and Geddy Lee.

Yeesh...how the hell did I forget Geddy Lee.

 

[ynot]

I think we are just just more damned twisted.... I am, anyway...

+1

 

[FireAarro]

Yeesh...how the hell did I forget Geddy Lee.

Techinically I guess the songs are written by the whole band... "Music by Lee and Lifeson, Lyrics by Peart".

 

[shaver]

fender guitars are my fav guitars.. MM are my fav basses..